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On-device deep learning (DL) has rapidly gained adoption in mobile apps, offering the benefits of offline model inference and user privacy preservation over cloud-based approaches. However, it inevitably stores models on user devices,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yujin Huang , Zhi Zhang , Qingchuan Zhao , Xingliang Yuan , Chunyang Chen

On-device machine learning (ML) is quickly gaining popularity among mobile apps. It allows offline model inference while preserving user privacy. However, ML models, considered as core intellectual properties of model owners, are now stored…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Zhichuang Sun , Ruimin Sun , Long Lu , Alan Mislove

As ML models become increasingly complex and integral to high-stakes domains such as finance and healthcare, they also become more susceptible to sophisticated adversarial attacks. We investigate the threat posed by undetectable backdoors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Alkis Kalavasis , Amin Karbasi , Argyris Oikonomou , Katerina Sotiraki , Grigoris Velegkas , Manolis Zampetakis

Performing deep learning on end-user devices provides fast offline inference results and can help protect the user's privacy. However, running models on untrusted client devices reveals model information which may be proprietary, i.e., the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Peter M. VanNostrand , Ioannis Kyriazis , Michelle Cheng , Tian Guo , Robert J. Walls

Privacy-sensitive users require deploying large language models (LLMs) within their own infrastructure (on-premises) to safeguard private data and enable customization. However, vulnerabilities in local environments can lead to unauthorized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hanbo Huang , Yihan Li , Bowen Jiang , Bo Jiang , Lin Liu , Ruoyu Sun , Zhuotao Liu , Shiyu Liang

Devices at the edge of wireless networks are the last mile data sources for machine learning (ML). As opposed to traditional ready-made public datasets, these user-generated private datasets reflect the freshest local environments in real…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Jihong Park , Shiqiang Wang , Anis Elgabli , Seungeun Oh , Eunjeong Jeong , Han Cha , Hyesung Kim , Seong-Lyun Kim , Mehdi Bennis

Model extraction attacks aim to replicate the functionality of a black-box model through query access, threatening the intellectual property (IP) of machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) providers. Defending against such attacks is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xueqi Cheng , Minxing Zheng , Shixiang Zhu , Yushun Dong

Nowadays, the deployment of deep learning-based applications is an essential task owing to the increasing demands on intelligent services. In this paper, we investigate latency attacks on deep learning applications. Unlike common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Erh-Chung Chen , Pin-Yu Chen , I-Hsin Chung , Che-rung Lee

Edge intelligent applications like VR/AR and language model based chatbots have become widespread with the rapid expansion of IoT and mobile devices. However, constrained edge devices often cannot serve the increasingly large and complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zongshun Zhang , Ibrahim Matta

The predominant paradigm for using machine learning models on a device is to train a model in the cloud and perform inference using the trained model on the device. However, with increasing number of smart devices and improved hardware,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Sauptik Dhar , Junyao Guo , Jiayi Liu , Samarth Tripathi , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

Upon deployment to edge devices, it is often desirable for a model to further learn from streaming data to improve accuracy. However, extracting representative features from such data is challenging because it is typically unlabeled,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Gelei Xu , Ningzhi Tang , Jun Xia , Wei Jin , Yiyu Shi

Deep learning models have achieved unprecedented performance in the domain of object detection, resulting in breakthroughs in areas such as autonomous driving and security. However, deep learning models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jeongjin Shin

Neural network stealing attacks have posed grave threats to neural network model deployment. Such attacks can be launched by extracting neural architecture information, such as layer sequence and dimension parameters, through leaky…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jingtao Li , Zhezhi He , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Deliang Fan , Chaitali Chakrabarti

Deep learning models are increasingly used in mobile applications as critical components. Unlike the program bytecode whose vulnerabilities and threats have been widely-discussed, whether and how the deep learning models deployed in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Yuanchun Li , Jiayi Hua , Haoyu Wang , Chunyang Chen , Yunxin Liu

From computer vision and speech recognition to forecasting trajectories in autonomous vehicles, deep learning approaches are at the forefront of so many domains. Deep learning models are developed using plethora of high-level, generic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Hamid Tabani , Ajay Balasubramaniam , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

To safeguard user data privacy, on-device inference has emerged as a prominent paradigm on mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This paradigm involves deploying a model provided by a third party on local devices to perform inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tong Sun , Bowen Jiang , Hailong Lin , Borui Li , Yixiao Teng , Yi Gao , Wei Dong

Machine Learning (ML)-powered apps are used in pervasive devices such as phones, tablets, smartwatches and IoT devices. Recent advances in collaborative, distributed ML such as Federated Learning (FL) attempt to solve privacy concerns of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Souvik Paul , Nicolas Kourtellis

Deep learning has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance for a variety of challenging computer vision tasks. On one hand, this has enabled deep visual models to pave the way for a plethora of critical applications like disease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Mohammad A. A. K. Jalwana , Naveed Akhtar , Mohammed Bennamoun , Ajmal Mian

Deep neural network (DNN) models have become prevalent in edge devices for real-time inference. However, they are vulnerable to model extraction attacks and require protection. Existing defense approaches either fail to fully safeguard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Ziyu Liu , Yukui Luo , Shijin Duan , Tong Zhou , Xiaolin Xu

Deep Learning (DL) models have been widely deployed on IoT devices with the help of advancements in DL algorithms and chips. However, the limited resources of edge devices make these on-device DL models hard to be generalizable to diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Bufang Yang , Lixing He , Neiwen Ling , Zhenyu Yan , Guoliang Xing , Xian Shuai , Xiaozhe Ren , Xin Jiang